All that wooing by Bill Clinton (not to mention those two cabinet jobs in his Administration) didn’t work. Bill Richardson, the nation’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Barack Obama, the AP reports:

“I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in

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NBC is reporting that two State Department contract employees have been fired, and a third person disciplined, for snooping around in Barack Obama’s passport file.

“A monitoring system was tripped when an employee accessed the records of a high-profile individual,” a department official told NBC News. “When the monitoring system is

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Both CNN and AP are reporting big increases in Democratic voter registration in Pennsylvania in advance of the April 22 primary. But there’s an interesting and potentially significant tidbit down in the AP story:

_ The nine counties with the biggest percentage increases in Democratic enrollment since last fall — more than 5 percent

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My notes are brief, but so was the call. It was also incredibly focused on the record of Clinton’s NAFTA involvement. Audio here. Notes after the jump.

The ongoing saga of the McCain Campaign’s effort to keep the political discourse respectful added another chapter today. As reported by Jon Martin, the campaign has suspended a junior staffer, Soren Dayton, a conservative blogger/consultant who worked in McCain’s political department.

His crime: Distributing, via Twitter, a smarmy …

In less than two days, Barack Obama’s speech on race has been viewed more the 2 million times on YouTube. By comparison, consider that MSNBC’s Hardball averaged about 420,000 in the 7 p.m. hour last November. CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 pulled in 589,000 at 10 p.m.

Another comparison: John McCain’s mesmerizing spaceflight video has been …

Whoever told reporters that HRC’s schedules held “no smoking guns” must posses a somewhat insensitive fire alarm. The Obama campaign sees things quite differently and is particularly eager to set a match to the documentation of the First Lady’s involvement in pushing through NAFTA:

AP — She also was an early champion of the North

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• “Imagine the news stories that might follow if satellite accounts were published along with GDP figures: ‘GDP up; parents’ time with kids plummets.’ ‘GDP flat; education surges.’ ‘GDP and resource depletion both soar.'” [WorldChanging via BoingBoing]

• “Of course it was wrong. I know that now. But when you show the people from the

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• “International Association of Time Travelers: Members’ Forum… ‘Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.'” [Abyss and Apex]

• “Great Moments in Journalism: Hillary Was in White

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